Filozoa

Filozoa is a clade (a group of plants or animals with a common ancestor) that is in the Opisthokonta clade. It includes animals, and their close single-celled relatives. These relatives are more closely related to animals than they are to fungi,^[1] and other Opisthokonts.

Filozoa Temporal range: Late Tonian - Present, 782.2–0 Ma Had'n Archean Proterozoic Pha.
Orange elephant ear sponge, Agelas clathrodes, in foreground. Two corals in the background: a sea fan, Iciligorgia schrammi, and a sea rod, Plexaurella nutans.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Clade:	Amorphea
Clade:	Obazoa
Clade:	Opisthokonta
Clade:	Holozoa
Clade:	Filozoa Shalchian-Tabrizi et al., 2008
Subgroups
Filasterea Choanozoa Choanoflagellatea Animalia

Three groups are in Filozoa: Filasterea, Choanoflagellatea, and Kingdom Animalia. Animalia is the most important one, which has all proper animals in it.

Evolution

The phylogenic tree (evolution tree) below shows how clades broke into newer clades. This includes Filozoa.

Opisthokonta	Holomycota Cristidiscoidea Fonticulida Nucleariida Fungi/Zoosporia BCG2 True Fungi Aphelida BCG1 Rozellomyceta/ Rozella Namako-37 Microsporidia Holozoa Ichthyosporea Pluriformea Syssomonas Corallochytrium Filozoa Filasterea Choanozoa Choanoflagellate Animalia